AMYCUS

Amycus, #55576, was discovered on April 8, 2002 at 7 Libra 11. This is getting to be a popular degree of the zodiac for Centaurs, since both Asbolus and 1999 HD12 were discovered in the same degree. Perhaps, as time goes by, we will find that these Centaurs all have qualities in common. But it won't be size...Amycus is almost double the size of Asbolus, and about ten tims the size of 1999 HD12!

Perhaps we will find that they all share something that connects them to the Sabian Symbol for this degree: A blazing fireplace in a deserted home.

The orbit of this Centaur is about 127 years, so the odds of seeing an Amycus return are pretty slim. It has an eccentricity of 0.3987246, and an inclination to the ecliptic of 13.33584.

MYTHOLOGY

There doesn't seem to be a lot written about Amycus. In fact, the main source of information comes from Ovid [Met.12.250], where we find out that Amycus was involved in the war with the Lapith's that began at the wedding of Theseus' friend Pirithous.

Amycus, son of Ophion, was the first who dared to rob the inner shrine of its offerings: he gave the lead by snatching from the sanctuary a branched candlestick, thickly hung with flaring lamps. Raising this aloft, as the priest raises the sacrificial axe when he strains to cleave through the snowy neck of the bull, Amycus dashed it against the forehead of the Lapith Celadon, and left him with his skull smashed, his face unrecognizable: for his eyes leaped from their sockets, his nose, pushed backwards as the bones of his face were shattered, was driven firmly into the middle of his palate.

But Pelates from Pella brought Amycus to the ground with a table leg, wrenched from a maplewood table. He drove his enemy's chin down into his breast and, as Amycus was spitting our a mixture of teeth and blood, struck him a second blow that despatched him to the shades of Tartarus.

We know that Amycus was the son of Ophion, also a Centaur. I'm sure his father mourned his son's death. And perhaps in Amycus' home, or cave, or wherever he once lived, there was indeed a hearth fire burning in a home that would never again see it's owner return. (Asbolus, too, died as a result of what happened at this wedding, so his home also would forever be deserted.)

ASTROLOGY

A lot of research needs to be done before we truly understand the nature of this Centaur, but here are a few things to think about.

On November 22, 2005, there was a conjunction of Amycus and Jupiter at 5 Scorpio 55. Some of the stories that made headlines around the world at that time included:

Google announcd that it is giving $3 million to the U.S. Library of Congress to help set up a system for creating digital copies of rare documents from around the world, a "World Digital Library."

China Tests RFID System for monitoring and tracking technologies at a poultry farm in an attempt to prevent the spread of bird flu.

US President George W. Bush becomes the first leader of this country to visit Mongolia.

The planned execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams made headlines. While he was the co-founder of the Crips gang, and he was convicted of having "shot and killed four people during two robberies in Los Angeles", the stories also focused on the fact that he had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature (for writing children's books warning children against becoming gang members).

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced at a press conference today that Jose Padilla has been indicted, charged "with providing - and conspiring to provide - material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder individuals who are overseas".

Author Kurt Vonnegut stirred a lot of impassioned reaction to a statement that he made about terrorists. Vonnegut said it was "sweet and honourable" to die for what you believe in, and rejected the idea that terrorists were motivated by twisted religious beliefs. "They are dying for their own self-respect," he said. "It's a terrible thing to deprive someone of their self-respect. It's like your culture is nothing, your race is nothing, you're nothing."

President Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in the counry
of Qatar, a supposedly "Top Secret" memo from #10 Downing Street purports, but (said the memo) he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.

On Amable's blog, Transneptunian Astrology, there is this interesting observation about Amycus: "Amycus always finds the anomaly that has been latent in a system (that had worked well since that time), like in the movies "The Bourne Identity" (2002), "Minority Report" (2002), "Matrix Reloaded" (2003), "Trapped" (2002), "The Life of David Gale" (2002), or "Crimson Tide" (1995)."

If you have anything you'd like to share about Amycus, such as personal transit experiences, or results of your research, or possible keywords, please enter that here:

What was going on in the world during these times:

NEPTUNE

AMYCUS

DY/MO/YEAR

15Sc12

180°00'

15Ta12

6/01/1963

15Sc32

180°00'

15Ta32

9/03/1963

17Sc06

180°00'

17Ta06

28/12/1963

17Sc33

180°00'

17Ta33

22/03/1964

19Sc01

180°00'

19Ta01

21/12/1964

19Sc34

180°00'

19Ta34

2/04/1965

20Sc58

180°00'

20Ta58

16/12/1965

21Sc36

180°00'

21Ta36

11/04/1966

22Sc57

180°00'

22Ta57

13/12/1966

23Sc39

180°00'

23Ta39

19/04/1967

24Sc57

180°00'

24Ta57

10/12/1967

25Sc43

180°00'

25Ta43

25/04/1968

26Sc59

180°00'

26Ta59

8/12/1968

27Sc48

180°00'

27Ta48

1/05/1969

29Sc03

180°00'

29Ta03

7/12/1969

29Sc54

180°00'

29Ta54

6/05/1970

1Sa08

180°00'

1Ge08

7/12/1970

2Sa02

180°00'

2Ge02

11/05/1971

3Sa16

180°00'

3Ge16

7/12/1971

4Sa11

180°00'

4Ge11

13/05/1972

5Sa25

180°00'

5Ge25

8/12/1972

6Sa21

180°00'

6Ge21

16/05/1973

7Sa36

180°00'

7Ge36

11/12/1973

8Sa33

180°00'

8Ge33

18/05/1974

9Sa50

180°00'

9Ge50

15/12/1974

10Sa47

180°00'

10Ge47

19/05/1975

12Sa06

180°00'

12Ge06

19/12/1975

13Sa01

180°00'

13Ge01

18/05/1976

14Sa24

180°00'

14Ge24

24/12/1976

15Sa18

180°00'

15Ge18

16/05/1977

16Sa45

180°00'

16Ge45

1/01/1978

17Sa36

180°00'

17Ge36

13/05/1978

19Sa09

180°00'

19Ge09

10/01/1979

19Sa56

180°00'

19Ge56

9/05/1979

21Sa36

180°00'

21Ge36

21/01/1980

22Sa17

180°00'

22Ge17

2/05/1980

24Sa07

180°00'

24Ge07

2/02/1981

24Sa39

180°00'

24Ge39

23/04/1981

26Sa44

180°00'

26Ge44

24/02/1982

27Sa01

180°00'

27Ge01

7/04/1982

Some other dates worth researching in the news:

Amycyus conjunct Uranus

28/2/1925

Amycus square Uranus

25/10/1956

16/1/1957

6/9/1957

21/3/1958

23/7/1958

Two people with Amycus closely square Uranus are Holly Hunter and Gary Oldman.

Amycus square Pluto:

22/8/1996

18/1/1997

9/7/1997

Another way to study a Centaur is by looking for patterns in people who share the same aspect. What do people born with a close Amcyus/Mars aspect have in common, for example? Here are a few I've found so far with very close aspects:

Mars conjunct Amycus

Anthony Burgess

Shirley Chisholm

Paul Mazursky

Anthony Perkins

Jack Lousma

Jack Nicklaus

Marth Stewart

John Fogerty

Meredith MacRae

Joyce DeWitt

Janis Ian

Paula Abdul

Luis Miguel Basteri

Mars opposition Amycus

Oscar Levant

Art Linkletter

Indira Gandhi

Yves Montand

B.B. King

Al Kaline

Pele

Bobby Knight

Michael Douglas

Anne Robinson

Tommy Lee Jones

Liam Neeson

Isabella Rossellini

Carol Kane

Steven Wright

Bryan Adams

Keith Lockhart

Scottie Pippen

Jennifer Anniston

Ryan Seacrest

Clay Aiken

Nelly Furtado

Here is a list of the exact Amcyus conjunctions and oppositions with Mars for the past 100 years. Do you know anyone born near one of these dates? If so, what do they have in common with the people listed above?